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View Poll Results: Anyone got pest critters?
Asterina Starfish 38 40.86%
Vermetid snails 19 20.43%
Pyramidellid snails 7 7.53%
Aiptasia 61 65.59%
Majano 16 17.20%
Evil crabs (any and all) 21 22.58%
Planaria flatworms 13 13.98%
Acropora Eating Flatworms 5 5.38%
Montipora eating nudibranchs 5 5.38%
Red bugs 7 7.53%
Zoanthid eating spiders 3 3.23%
Zoanthid eating nudibranchs 6 6.45%
Whelks 2 2.15%
mantis shrimp 6 6.45%
Other hobbyists 12 12.90%
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Old 02-25-2013, 08:52 PM
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got pests?
Other hobbyists - Lastlight still parks in front of my house all the time

Thankfully I haven't had that particular pest.
A large number of those pests wont make the drive to the north end, So I luck out that way.

My Tanks have had:
Flatworms
Bumble Bee Snails
Evil Hairy Crabs
Colonial Hydroids
and 2 Aptasia that I just cant get to.

oh and Blue clove polyps and Kenya tree's those should be on the list.
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Old 02-25-2013, 09:02 PM
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Thankfully I haven't had that particular pest.
A large number of those pests wont make the drive to the north end, So I luck out that way.

My Tanks have had:
Flatworms
Bumble Bee Snails
Evil Hairy Crabs
Colonial Hydroids
and 2 Aptasia that I just cant get to.

oh and Blue clove polyps and Kenya tree's those should be on the list.
Oo, I forgot about the hyroids!! ya, good call, I have those buggers.
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I've become so frustrated with my aiptasia that I'm about to build a zapper for them. And I have asternia stars I don't know why people consider them pests tho, mine dont hurt anything
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I've become so frustrated with my aiptasia that I'm about to build a zapper for them. And I have asternia stars I don't know why people consider them pests tho, mine dont hurt anything
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Crabs...back to the Dr.'s. I go
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Blue cloves for sure!
I'm also fighting the odd zoa eating nudi. My wrasses are doing a great job in my display (haven't seen any zoas closing at all in months) but I found my new candy apple reds closed up in my frag section and after a quick dip I saw what seemed to be a nudi. I think I need to add a wrasse to my frag section.
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I love blue cloves!! :-).

.. And yes I know I'm the only person on this planet who does.
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I love blue cloves!! :-).

.. And yes I know I'm the only person on this planet who does.
I used too. I bought them multiple times but now that my tank is stable and growing they are showing up on every rock, pipe and snail in the tank.
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I love blue cloves!! :-).

.. And yes I know I'm the only person on this planet who does.
I no longer have a bare bottom tank, it's a blue clove bottom tank.
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Hi,

I would like to add green star polyps and a strange kind of aptaisia that has green centers and lives mostly in the sand. It should be easy to scoop them out but not so. They are lightening fast and if you don't succeed the first couple of times removing them, they move somewhere else.

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